How Rewind uses AI

Last updated September 22, 2026.

Rewind uses AI to help turn a church's own sermons into study material — overviews, devotionals, group guides, scripture references, homiletic breakdowns, and answers to questions — and to assist preachers as they draft. This page explains what that AI does and the commitments we hold ourselves to. It describes how the product is built to behave; it is not legal advice.

AI contributions are identified

Rewind identifies AI-written material in context. Study pages carry a short disclosure; other features use a “Rewind AI” mark and an explanation. Church-written wording and verified sermon quotations keep their own attribution. We do not present a paraphrase as a verbatim quote. Signed-in readers can report a problem on published study pages; other surfaces provide a way to contact us.

Faithful to the source

Rewind is built to ground generated study material in the church's own sermons and the Scripture those sermons teach — not an open-ended model opinion. The safeguards include:

When Rewind answers questions from the sermon archive or helps staff draft, its instructions call for paraphrasing the church's sermons, citing supporting moments where available, and saying plainly when the source does not support a point. Devotionals and group guides draw on the sermon overview and, when supplied, the church's published message notes. Their prompts restrict unsupported sermon claims; these outputs do not carry per-claim transcript citations. An answer may have no citation; never treat one as proof that an interpretation is correct.
Our generation rules prohibit inventing a quotation, a personal story, a name, a statistic, or an attribution. Verified quotes and attributed illustrations use a path that carries them verbatim from the source instead of asking the generator to compose them. These safeguards reduce mistakes; they cannot make every generated sentence infallible.
We display church-authored titles and text verbatim, and we never rewrite them “for newcomers.”

Doctrinal accuracy

Rewind is a study aid, not a doctrinal authority. Answers, devotionals, group guides, and Studio sermon drafting use instructions intended to stay within historic, mainstream Christian teaching and any convictions the connecting church has supplied. Overviews and homiletic breakdowns instead describe what was preached; their job is source fidelity, not revising the sermon to fit a doctrinal template. Where doctrinal instructions apply, the model is asked to:

avoid introducing doctrine that the sermon and passage did not raise;
avoid contradicting a position the church has settled or taking a side on matters that church explicitly leaves open;
defer to the church's leadership on doctrine when it supplies settled and open positions;
reflect a posture of unity on essentials, liberty on non-essentials, and love in all things.

These are commitments about how the product is built to behave, not a guarantee of theological perfection. AI can be wrong. Treat Rewind's output as a starting point for study under your church's teaching, not a substitute for it, and tell us when something misses.

Churches choose when to review

The drafting tools in Studio produce draft material a preacher owns, edits, and may discard — never a finished sermon and never the church's official voice. The preacher authors the central idea; the AI scaffolds and develops what the preacher wrote. For reader-facing study content, a church can require someone on its team to review and publish it, or let it publish automatically. In either mode, Rewind identifies AI-written material as a study aid, not the church's official voice.

The models we use

Rewind uses Anthropic's Claude models to generate text and OpenAI's embedding models to power search over a church's sermons. We do not use a church's content to train third-party foundation models; providers process content only to return a result to us. See our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum for how data is handled and who our subprocessors are.

Tell us when something is wrong

If any generated content misrepresents a sermon, misstates doctrine, or fabricates a detail, use “Report a problem” where it appears, or contact us. Reports go to church and Rewind reviewers, and they help us correct the material and improve the guardrails.

How Rewind uses AI

Last updated September 22, 2026.

AI contributions are identified

Faithful to the source

Rewind is built to ground generated study material in the church's own sermons and the Scripture those sermons teach — not an open-ended model opinion. The safeguards include:

When Rewind answers questions from the sermon archive or helps staff draft, its instructions call for paraphrasing the church's sermons, citing supporting moments where available, and saying plainly when the source does not support a point. Devotionals and group guides draw on the sermon overview and, when supplied, the church's published message notes. Their prompts restrict unsupported sermon claims; these outputs do not carry per-claim transcript citations. An answer may have no citation; never treat one as proof that an interpretation is correct.

Our generation rules prohibit inventing a quotation, a personal story, a name, a statistic, or an attribution. Verified quotes and attributed illustrations use a path that carries them verbatim from the source instead of asking the generator to compose them. These safeguards reduce mistakes; they cannot make every generated sentence infallible.

We display church-authored titles and text verbatim, and we never rewrite them “for newcomers.”

Doctrinal accuracy

avoid introducing doctrine that the sermon and passage did not raise;

avoid contradicting a position the church has settled or taking a side on matters that church explicitly leaves open;

defer to the church's leadership on doctrine when it supplies settled and open positions;

reflect a posture of unity on essentials, liberty on non-essentials, and love in all things.

Churches choose when to review

The models we use